Hello and welcome to Rundown, a podcast from Politics Home.

I'm your host, Alan Tolhurst, and in this week's episode, ahead of the upcoming AI Safety Summit,

we're taking a look at what the government hopes to achieve in the talks of Pellachi next week,

and Rishi soon acts attempts to make the UK a global centre for regulating

this huge growth industry. To discuss this, I'm joined by my colleague, political reporter Zoe

Crowther, and I'm delighted to say we're joined by the government's AI minister, Viscount Camrose,

as well as Renata Sampson, interim associate director at the Ada Lovelace Institute,

and Anthony Walker, Deputy CEO of Tech UK.

So I'm just going to start with you, Zoe.

We're recording this just after Richard Seenak's big AI speech in central London,

after an official report came out overnight,

warning the technology could pose an existential threat to us all.

Just talk us through briefly what the Prime Minister said in that speech.

Yeah, absolutely.

So what the Prime Minister was doing today in his speech is he was setting out a number of the quite large existential risks that AI could pose to society and the world.

He said it's really important that the UK government and global governments are honest

about those risks, including things like terrorist groups, being able to develop

bio-weapons using AI, rising unemployment and poverty if AI takes over kind of any jobs in particular

sectors, societal unrest, organised crime. So he kind of set out a lot of those risks there

and described it as a highly unusual move

for government to publish research on the risks of AI. What he's doing is setting out these risks

ahead of the summit next week as the summit being a safety summit is going to invite international

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